Isn't dark matter scientific nomenclature for 'we don't know why are calculations are off, but they are grossly OFF. Must be dark matter?'

Dark matter might be better labeled MISSING MATTER?

not now... the characteristics of dark matter are distinct from dark energy, both of which account for the missing matter.

But the two have very different properties.

While we do not have a definitive explanation of either dark matter or dark energy, we have candidate explanations of both. Over the next 20 to 40 years, it will be the focus of research in high energy physics (by way of precision cosmology rather than particle accelerators) to study dark energy. Experiments are underway to identify the candidates for dark matter.

Cosmology, and particle physics, have drawn a box around what those things could be... the boundaries of the box are tightened until we have the explanation.

You could start that trend towards knowledge by reading a bit of Strassler, Dingus. Free of charge.

Just sayin...

We COULD get rid of 'those criminals' in Washington, but first...

1) 'We'd' have to decide who 'we' are. You and your pals? Me and mine? I think that's what elections are for.
2) 'We'd' have to decide who, exactly, 'those criminals' are. I think that's what courts are for.
3) then 'we'd' have to decide how to 'get rid' of them without destroying democracy. I think that's what constitutions are for.

cuz if you're talkin' about destruction, doncha know that you can count me out.

Democracy is hard. I heart our democracy though, even if it needs body work and a tune up. At least we ain't killin' each other...any more. They system can work to produce long lasting, positive change, but you gotta commit long term to make that happen rather than carping from the sidelines and wishing everybody would 'just wake up.' People are awake - we just don't agree on some things. Never did. Never will.

Also, as we all know the man who wrote those words about revolution and counting him out and it's going to be alright was gunned down on the streets of New York back in 1980.
Ironic and tragic ending for one who espoused peace in all his writings, activism, and music. John Lennon's legacy will be true to stand the test of time.

Not that anybody asked... but I would've suggested "dark fudge gravity" and "dark fudge pull" (in lieu of "dark matter" and "dark energy") - as placeholders - and even "dark fudge interface" (inspired by "dark fudge gravity") as placeholder for that mysterious unknown boundary condition or mechanism between brain and consciousness.

But the mental life (the subjective mind) sure seems to run, to operate, even to act up (when it does) as if it IS the straight-up (I won't say "simple") processing of a complex organic electronic machine charged by evolution by natural selection with the control of a body whose "purpose" (EdH, lol!) is survival and reproduction in a particular niche in a complex dynamic environment.

And the more one understands systems, computers, biology, info science, electronic circuitry, etc etc etc ... not to mention the (apish) humanities and the (apish) human factor in the mix... the more this seems true.

Matter is a thing. Energy is a thing. EveryTHING in the universe is a thing.

Dingus, Strassler is an interesting scientist to me, not a hero. Hero's always fall.

If the above is your assertion and belief, I will have Strassler respond to it. Just making sure before asking him to clear this up for you.

JL

But I'm still waiting for the follow-through on this one.

Please, have Strassler respond.
In whatever manner he chooses. Thanks.

I'm just bombed with work right now but I'll try and find time to talk to Strassler soon as I get back from Boulder tomorrow for the Sender Films/Valley Uprising release.

The point of all of this is that from the perspective of our discursive minds, all the stuff "out there" is a thing, and the same goes for any and all aspects of people, places, things and phenomenon. When we use our minds in a way where the discursive leaves off, then we see that this is not so, that perspective plays a determining factor. This is what Strassler was driving at when saying that terms like "matter" and energy and stuff need to a context to even be understood, hat there is no agreed upon definition to what matter even is.

Many people are made more secure by the idea that reality is a fixed "thing" full of things just as black and white as Dingus insists that they are. The Harvard physiscist has another take on this. And so do many others who have made a study of mind adventures that are not based on imagining "things."